it's not hard for me because i never care about music from the recent days from the new artists and such, and since new music is terrible anyway I don't buy anything but stick with the cds I already had purchased in the 80s/90s. I don't even think it's worth downloading them either 😁

Didn't start listening to music until about 2004. (24yrs old). Seriously, I would listen to whatever music my parents (Country) had on or friends music while I was visiting but that's about it. Bought my first audio CD in 2004.

I did accumulate alot of MP3 music from 1999-today. (Didn't start listening ot it until about 2004) Starting in about 2004 I started organizing it and started slowly buying Audio CD's but only if the CD contains alot of music I listen to in my collection. If it's only 3 or 4 songs then I don't bother. I don't "rent" movies or music and I don't buy DRM music....and I wouldn't waste money on lossy music anyway so I've been kind of stuck as to how I'd buy the music. There are probably websites where you can buy losessless but that's too much work for me considering I still have a ton of MP3's to sort through.....

So I don't really care about RIAA or not. All I care about is if I buy the music that's it's lossless, no DRM and it's worth the price. Those right there are more than enough complication for me to deal with without also having to worry about the RIAA.

My answer would be similar to leileilol. I bought most of the music I listen to years ago. There might be an album or two a year coming out now that I would have bought but I am like your friend and won't purchase any music from an RIAA source. For example, I heard the new Eagles CD the other day and liked a few tracks but I would rather do without instead of lining their pockets.

In contrast, when Napster was still around I bought more music than I had since the 70s/early 80s since I was exposed to more different types of music than will ever be played on the radio here. I haven't bought anything since Napster was shut down.

My personal opinion is that the decline in music sales that the RIAA blames on piracy is due to other factors. Around 2000 the RIAA had real competition for your entertainment spending for the first time. DVDs had come down to affordable prices, and the PS2 and Xbox were launched around then. Before, all you had to spend your money on was music, suddenly there were many more choices. Of course there were still computer games or VHS tapes, but they just didn't have the mass market appeal that the current range of consoles and DVDs have.

Well I also bought the music I listen to now a days years ago. And the last Depeche Mode album I officially bought was Ultra and that was before MUTE got bought by EMI , and the next album (ecxiter) that I got my hands on about 3 months before it got released. Ever since then I haven´t bought many albums, other than old bootlegs and LPs.

I have an original audio tapes collection, sometimes I still listen to them through some old tape players and tens-of-times-repaired walkmen and a collection of CD's of my favourite artist.
I still buy some CD's from time to time when I want to own a full artwork (song, media and jewel-box decorations)
but honestly how many CD's are actually worth buying nowadays?
That's why I get more sticky to the radio, since most of these songs once they made their (short) time they are gone for ever, just like a paper feed for your printer: When it's finished you need new paper.
The rest that's not that way I buy the CD.
This is just my opinion but I think the musical recording industy claims to be in a crisis because they are selling shyt and that's the reason why people don't buy records, NOT because people download music.
The possibility of downloading music from the internet, or to listen to audio samples from a new record brought up a more mature (I'm not referring to age) audience because it gave people the possibility to know a wider range of artists and genres, thus getting to know "unknown" or self-produced artists that don't distribute their music on the mainstream channels.
The music industry is not satisfying these tastes criteria.
Furthermore the RIAA (not the music companies themselves) is dilapidating fortunes in legal actions and is making an awful public image of the music industry itself.
That's why there's no need to boycott the RIAA, they're doing so by themselves.

Guy whats the point, the RIAA basically makes all their money on lawsuits. You can't win.

I'm not trying to win. I'm not even fighting! I think no one here is. The point is that RIAA is damaging the music and motion pictures industries - period.

@avatar_58 -- You're out of your mind if you think the RIAA is actually making money off their lawsuits. 😳

It seems that way to me. Didn't you hear about the case where they forced some grandma to pay because her grandson downloaded like a dozen songs at her house one time?

Or the other case where someone had to pay a few hundred bucks per song?

I don't doubt the RIAA is fighting a losing battle, but it seems whenever they are in the red they just hunt down the easiest target and fire away.

You're vastly underestimating how expensive lawyers are, and how many lawsuits they've got going on right now. 😀

avatar_58 wrote:

I don't doubt the RIAA is fighting a losing battle, but it seems whenever they are in the red they just hunt down the easiest target and fire away.

What is your opinion about what this will shortly lead to?

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I don't believe such a RIAA line is effectively fighting the actual "pirate circuits". It's just making people think such things as "I bought a CD, will I go to jail if I convert it to listen to it on my iPod/mp3 reader/phone?", "my daughter was listening to the music at her computer, is she a criminal?", "If mp3 is illegal, why do they sell mp3 players?", "Why recording a movie or TV-show to a magnetic tape with my VCR was not so illegal as recording it with a TV DVD digital recorder?", "And if it's so illegal why are such apparatuses which allow that without any trick being currently advertised and legally sold?" and so forth, you know how long we could continue. And you know that's what common people think.